Hi Fred - There are two sets of selections at play here, your choice and that of the men you are matching. The differences you see *depending on which project is selected* is because not all of your matches are comparing against the entire database as you are. My uncle has a 66/67 out of surname match who it appears only compares with the R-M222 Haplogroup Project, his name & email only appears in my uncle's matches list if the R-M222 Haplogroup Project is the one I have selected. Sharon On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:53 AM, fred westcott <westcott.fred@gmail.com>wrote: > I am having difficulties learning how to find matches at FT. In > Preferences I selected "entire database" yet my matches vary with > either one of four projects that I have joined depending on which one > is selected. And they do not vary consistently. If the surname > project, Adams, is selected I will get 724 exact matches of 12 markers > (of 727 possible if another project is selected) only one of which is > an Adams, but in the next category , 12 markers GD 1, there are six > Adams and no other names. There can be up to 126 names in this > category depending on which project is selected. > Is there a way of deselecting all short of opting out of all projects ? > > What am I missing or doing wrong ? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > Y-DNA-PROJECTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >